Adam Fergusson is remarkable for the wide range of his books – which include travel writing, fiction, history, poetry and journalism. He has written light verse and songs, as well as lyrics for three musicals, State of Emergency, Gibbon Slept Here and Just One of Those Thanes. He is also the author of three novels, which include When Money Dies, the story of the Weimar inflation, and The Sack of Bath, a polemic on the despoliation of Bath by planners and developers.